Rush Limbaugh: Monica Lewinsky ‘collateral damage’

Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday said that Monica Lewinsky is “collateral damage in Hillary Clinton’s war on women” and that the Clinton administration “destroyed” the former White House intern.

In a post on the radio host’s website titled, “Monica Lewinsky: Collateral Damage in Hillary Clinton’s War on Women,” Limbaugh posted a transcript of a portion of Tuesday’s show in which he lambasted the former president for discarding Lewinsky after he “got what he wanted.”

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“After Clinton got what he wanted, after he got his jollies,” he said, according to the transcript, “after he got his consensual whatevers, then it was time to destroy her — along with every other woman that popped up, not just Monica Lewinsky — and it was Hillary right in there. The left and every supporter, the hypocrites that they are, didn’t think anything of it.”

The conservative commentator then said the Lewinsky incident was hypocritical in light of the Democratic attack that some Republicans are waging a “war on women.”

“The hypocrisy here from the people that claim they have all the tolerance and all the love and all the compassion, and it’s us, conservatives, waging this ‘War on Women.’ Yet every time you look around, it’s women who are been torn apart from their families or damaged or disrespected or whatever are really mistreated by these people,” he said.

Limbaugh continued, implicating the former first lady in helping to damage Lewinsky’s reputation: “They’re discarded after being used. And if they dare speak up at the wrong time and the wrong place, they get destroyed not just discarded. There’s Hillary. Monica Lewinsky is making the point that it was Hillary blaming all the women that were involved, including her. Lewinsky, she says she considered suicide. So Hillary and Bill… I mean, War on Women?”

Limbaugh’s comments came after Vanity Fair posted excerpts from an upcoming profile of Lewinsky, the former White House intern who had an affair with former President Bill Clinton while he was in office. Now 40, Lewinsky said the affair was consensual but added that “my boss took advantage of me,” according to an excerpt.

Limbaugh said that he still “reserve[s] the right to comment further” after reading more of the revelations in the upcoming Vanity Fair article.